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God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran

The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi

The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill

The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller

Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong

Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank

Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Begin your life today, and again tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie